The game includes several music tracks by groups like Coldcut, DJ Food, and Amon Tobin, but with the default audio settings you’ll miss most of them. I just don’t understand the point of adding so much cool music to a game if most of the players will never hear it. Special visual effects like smoke and lighting are used to great advantage to provide atmosphere, and the character movements are smooth and lifelike. The scenery is very well done, with detailed backgrounds, extensive play area for each event, and a number of extra touches that make the game feel much more realistic. For a competitive racing game like this, multiplayer support should be all-inclusive and easy to locate. I think I’d gone through the single race menus over a dozen times before I noticed the "Player 2 press start to join" message that flashes quickly across the screen during character selection. The two-player mode is only supported in single race matches, not in championship play, and nowhere in the manual does it cover how to start multiplayer mode. The game supports a two-player vertical split screen mode, but it may be harder to find this mode than to beat your friends in a race. I do have a gripe about multiplayer support. You will have to win at Speed Gliding to get anywhere in the game – all three races in the Easy mode include the event, and to unlock Bungee and Sky Surfing you must take first place in the Easy and Medium Championship series. I found the controls very awkward to use, and beating these sections was more a matter of luck in most cases than any skill on my part. I also didn’t have any problems with the Bungee Jump and Sky Surfing events, but Speed Gliding nearly drove me mad. For the Snowboard, ATV, and Mountain Bike events, the controls are basically the same and fairly simple to master.
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